the rate of suicide globally and in iran is increasing. suicide destroys human capital and poses huge obstacles for the improvement of women’s health and for the wider public health agenda. the main objectives of this paper is to review the available evidence on suicide in iran as well as to explore the underlying causes and reasons for suicidal tendencies among iranian women. the paper tests w...

BACKGROUND The effects of socio-economic factors on suicide were gender-dependent. Japanese suicide mortality gender ratio (male: female) had gradually increased during the twentieth century. METHODS With the data covering 1947-2010 collected from Japanese official websites, we conducted non-parametric rank test, curve estimations, spearman ranking correlation and quantile regression in succe...

BACKGROUND The recent economic recession has been associated with short-term increases in suicide in many countries. Data are lacking on the longer-term effect on suicide and on the impact on non-fatal suicidal behaviour. METHODS Using interrupted time series analyses, we have assessed the impact of economic recession and austerity in Ireland on national rates of suicide mortality and self-ha...

the main purpose of this study was to obtain accurate information about the psycho-social factors and epidemiological characteristics of the people who attempted suicide in hamadan. during one year, 667 individuals who had benn brought to 4 emergency centers in jamadan for attempting suicide, completed the personal data sheet, mmpi, and bdi.results indicated that 63% of this group (423 persons)...

conclusions this study highlights the burden of suicide and itspotential socio-demographic risk factors in sistan and blouchestan province. this information has an implication for planning the preventive measures, policy making and future research. results a greater proportion of the study subjects (65%) were female. they were more likely to be young (43.5% in the age group of 16 to 25 years) a...

The risk of suicide among the first-degree relatives of 195 schizophrenic and 315 manic-depressive patients in a long-term study was estimated. The findings demonstrate a higher risk of suicide among relatives of psychiatric patients in comparison with relatives of surgical controls. Male relatives had a higher risk of suicide than female relatives. When suicide risk in the relatives was analyz...

This study aimed to identify the prevalence and factors associated with suicidal ideation among Brazilian adolescents. The instrument designed for the research was used considering three models with outcomes that identified the following: (a) adolescent had considered suicide, (b) adolescents have planned suicide, and (c) adolescents have attempted suicide. Logistic Regression was used in all m...

objective: suicide represented 1.8% of the total global burden of disease in1998 and it will increase to 2.4% in 2020. we performed a cross sectional study to assess the prevalence of suicide ideation, attempt and its associated factors. method: we designed a cross sectional study in mahan and bardsir cities, kerman province, iran. based on the multistage cluster sampling, 860subjects aged 15 a...